when president clinton said the economy is stupid, what really happened all the way back in 1980, we went through a 24 hours news cycle which you represent first-hand, the ability of the press to cover news has been enhanced. job reports, gdp reports, prior to 1980, with the advent of cnn and later yourselves, they got pushed aside. they were only covered in print. this will be decided in the middle west, on the jobs numbers, the gdp numbers, it will be decided in some of these swing states. dagen: does it make, speaking of swing states, the cincinnati -- that one pull from the cincinnati inquirer has them neck and neck 49-49. because of the weather, because they are canceling some events, do those ad dollars spent on tv in the ads that are running on radio and television, are they even more critical because of what is happening with the weather? >> it has been a tsunami of ads. it is just overwhelming. there is almost nothing you can do in this letter week that you have not already seen. all the tv time was bought up as early as labor day. i think friday's jobs report will be pretty